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* Played with ''hilariously'' in ''[[Time Squad]]''. When the team is given a mission, Otto always would get really excited and start rattling off the wonderful achievements of whoever it was they were going to meet, pretty much ignoring any of the flaws (arguably justified through childish idealism). When they actually meet the historic figures however, they are all stupid, insane, stubborn, cruel, or plain incompetent.

* Christopher Columbus' heroic reputation actually [[Averted]] in, of all places, an episode of ''[[The Flintstones]]'' dealing with [[Time Travel]]. While the mythical story of him trying to prove the world is round is kept, here he's portrayed as a [[Jerkass]] and a [[Mean Boss]] towards his crew (and the four members of the cast) who has to fend off an attempt at a mutiny while threatening the four cast members to help him. The mutiny is stopped when Wilma sees land... and he quickly takes credit for it.

** Half a century later, his presumed heroism is ''[[Defied Trope|Defied]]'' in an ''[[Animaniacs]]'' skit (2020 reboot) where the Warner siblings describe in song his ''true'' history as best they can, going so far as to tell the viewers to check out his entry on [[The Other Wiki]] if they want the full story. Wakko calls him "a big phony" while Yakko calls him "history's luckiest fake."